FIRE PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS

Fire Performance

Fire has posed a preeminent threat to human society since man first
began constructing buildings and grouping them into towns and cities.
To counter this threat, gypsum plaster’s unique fire resistant
properties have been used for centuries to protect buildings from
fire. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, France’s Louis XIV
feared that his capital city could suffer the same fate. He issued a
royal decree in 1667 ordering that all wooden buildings were to be
protected with gypsum plaster. Thus, one of the earliest fire codes
led to this remarkable material becoming known as plaster of Paris.
The science of fire safety engineering has advanced greatly over the
years to give us an in-depth understanding of the critical stages of
fire initiation, growth, containment and suppression. Such knowledge
has enabled today’s building codes and fire protection engineers to
provide fire safe structures for our homes and cities. This section
presents the fundamentals of building fire protection.

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